Word: punching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...feel that the Soviet Union would not risk starting World War III by actually invading the Federal Republic. Nonetheless, ordinary West Germans cannot help feeling physically threatened by the Red Army. Impressed by the swiftness of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, many West Germans fear that Russian tanks might punch across the border so fast and at so many points that dozens of cities would be overrun before NATO got around to repelling the invasion with its tactical nuclear missiles. In that case, much of West Germany would become a nuclear battlefield-or fall to the conquerors without a riposte...
...should be an almost typical Harvard-M.I.T. soccer game especially since the Crimson will start former freshman highscorer Solomon Gomez for the first time this season. Gomez, who has been sidelined by a pulled Achilles tendon, should give the already high-powered Crimson attack even more scoring punch...
...most Southern Negroes soon realized that these tentative victories were in reality a setback. The evening TV news report had been one of the civil rights movement's primary weapons, but now much of its punch was gone. There were no more marches, few boycotts, little redneck backlash. The white Northern conscience turned to other things. Students began to work against the war; white liberals set to work in the ghettos. With no tangible goblins to fight, the Southern Negroes struggled for ways to keep the nation's support mobilized...
...mile course last Saturday. In comparison, Harvard victor Royce Shaw was the only runner to better that mark in Wednesday's race. Friar captain Dave Crooke also has the ability to challenge for the lead, and a strong flock of underclassmen could split up the Crimson scoring punch...
...Punch Instead of Punditry. The spirit behind the Observer's revival is its latest editor, Greg Olds, 33. A hulking (6 ft. 2 in.) University of Texas journalism graduate, Olds moved into the top slot two years ago after an uneventful career on several other small Texas papers. Unsure of himself at first, he shunned controversy and even ignored a tip about the McCrocklin thesis for nearly two years. But now he has decided to trade punditry for punch. He has prepared a list of 20 sensitive subjects into which he soon plans to dig-"things like the state...